EP0475312A2 - Procédé pour purification de gaz rare - Google Patents

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EP0475312A2
EP0475312A2 EP91115161A EP91115161A EP0475312A2 EP 0475312 A2 EP0475312 A2 EP 0475312A2 EP 91115161 A EP91115161 A EP 91115161A EP 91115161 A EP91115161 A EP 91115161A EP 0475312 A2 EP0475312 A2 EP 0475312A2
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Koichi C/O Japan Pionics Co. Ltd. Kitahara
Kenji c/o Japan Pionics Co. Ltd. Ohtsuka
Noboru C/O Japan Pionics Co. Ltd. Takemasa
Shinobu c/o Japan Pionics Co. Ltd. Kamiyama
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  • the present invention relates to a process for purification of rare gas. More particularly the present invention relates to a process for efficiently removing impurities contained in rare gases, such as helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon, by the use of a getter metal to thereby purify the rare gas.
  • rare gases such as helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon
  • Rare gases are usually purified by the use of a getter because they have similar chemical properties.
  • rare gases helium and argon are widely used in the semiconductor fabrication industry which has been greatly developing in recent years, and a higher gas purity is required.
  • neon, krypton and xenon are essential for production of special lamps, and they are often recycled after being used once, for reuse thereof, because they are very expensive. In this case, it is required that the recycled gas is highly purified by removing the impurities contained therein.
  • nitrogen, hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen, water, etc. present in the ppm order in the rare gas be removed to the ppb order.
  • argon is used in an extremely large amount and, therefore, purification of argon has been mainly under investigation. It is well known that technical information obtained by investigation of the purification of argon is also applicable to purification of other rare gases.
  • getters There are two types of getters: a vaporization type in which barium, for example, is used, and a non-vaporization type in which titanium, zirconium or the like is used.
  • the non-vaporization type of getter is usually employed.
  • the number of purification apparatuses using titanium or a titanium alloy is decreasing, and attempts to develop a purification apparatus using zirconium or its alloy as the getter have been made.
  • Use of zirconium or its alloy as the getter enables lowering the operating temperature of the purification apparatus to 400 to 700°C, and employing stainless steel, etc., for production of the purification apparatus, thereby producing the advantages that the danger of operation under pressure is eliminated and at the same time, an ability to remove hydrogen, which is barely removed at high temperatures, is increased.
  • Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3008/1987 discloses a Zr-V-Fe three-component alloy as a getter, and a purification apparatus using the three-component getter, which permits purification at lowered temperatures.
  • the three-component getter is relatively poor in its ability to remove impurities, specifically nitrogen and hydrocarbon, it has disadvantages in that the apparatus must be increased in size, a large space is needed for setting up the apparatus, and production costs of the apparatus are increased.
  • Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 118045/1990 discloses a Zr-Al-V three-component alloy getter
  • British Patent 1,370,208 discloses a Zr-Ti-Ni three-component alloy getter. These getters have a relatively high ability of removing hydrogen, but have a low ability of removing nitrogen.
  • a Zr-Ti alloy is disclosed in U.S. Patent 2,926,981. In the vicinity of 400°C, the alloy has a higher rate of oxygen absorption than Zr or Ti alone, but it has a disadvantage of being low in absorption rate of other gases.
  • U.S. Patent 4,071,335 proposes the use of a Zr-Ni alloy. Although the Zr-Ni alloy is excellent in the ability to remove hydrogen and water, its nitrogen removing ability is poor.
  • a getter comprising a two-component alloy of zirconium and vanadium, or an alloy of zirconium and vanadium with further at least one of chromium, nickel and cobalt added thereto, possesses a great ability to remove nitrogen, hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen, water, etc., at low temperatures in the neighbourhood of 400°C. Based on these findings, the present invention has been completed.
  • the present invention provides a process for purifying a rare gas which comprises contacting the rare gas with an alloy getter comprising 5 to 90% of vanadium, the balance being zirconium, to thereby remove nitrogen, hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen and water contained in the rare gas as impurities.
  • an alloy getter comprising 5 to 90% of vanadium, the balance being zirconium, to thereby remove nitrogen, hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen and water contained in the rare gas as impurities.
  • a multi-component alloy getter comprising a mixture or alloy of vanadium and zirconium and at least one of chromium, nickel and cobalt, the proportion of vanadium being from 5 to 90% by weight based on the total weight of vanadium and zirconium.
  • the Figure shows a flow of a rare gas purification apparatus which can be used in the present invention.
  • the getter for use in the present invention is a two-component alloy of vanadium and zirconium, or a multi-component alloy of vanadium and zirconium, with further chromium, nickel and cobalt added thereto.
  • the two-component alloy comprises 5 to 90% by weight, preferably 10 to 90% by weight of vanadium, with the balance being zirconium.
  • the multi-component comprises vanadium and zirconium, and not more than 30 parts by weight, preferably 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of at least one of chromium, nickel and cobalt (total weight when they ares used in combination) per 100 parts by the total weight of the vanadium and zirconium.
  • the impurity removing ability is decreased, and if it is more than 90% by weight, the resulting getter becomes expensive and its impurity removing ability is somewhat decreased. If the proportion of chromium, nickel and cobalt is more than 30 parts by weight, the impurity removing ability is sometimes decreased.
  • vanadium having a purity of at least 90% for example, is suitably used, and as the zirconium, commercially available zirconium sponge, for example, is suitably used.
  • zirconium commercially available zirconium sponge, for example, is suitably used.
  • chromium nickel and cobalt, commercially available ones can be used. These metals are mixed in a predetermined ratio, and then melted by applying an electron beam or an argon arc in a water cooled copper hearth, or by applying microwave heating or electric resistance heating in a crucible of magnesia, alumina, etc., in a vacuum or under reduced pressure in an atmosphere of inert gas such as argon to obtain the desired alloy.
  • the alloy thus obtained is ground to about 6 to 20 mesh by mechanical grinding such as by the use of a ball mill, a jaw crusher or a roll mill, or after finely grinding to about 100 mesh, molded into a pellet form.
  • all metal components may be mixed at the same time and then melted by heating, or after formation of the two-component alloy of vanadium and zirconium, at least one of chromium, nickel and cobalt may be added thereto and then melted by heating.
  • the getter thus obtained is charged in a purification cylinder and used in the state that it is heated at a temperature of at least 300°C, preferably 350 to 700°C, whereby impurities contained in the rare gas flowing through the purification cylinder are caught and removed by their reaction with the getter, and thus the rare gas can be continuously purified.
  • the getter Prior to the purification of the rare gas, the getter is usually subjected to activation treatment in a vacuum or in the rare gas at 500 to 900°C for 10 to 600 minutes and preferably 550 to 800°C for 30 to 400 minutes.
  • the present invention will hereinafter be explained more specifically referring to the attached drawing.
  • the Figure shows a flow sheet of a purification apparatus of rare gas.
  • the apparatus has an inlet 1 and an outlet 2.
  • a getter 3 is charged.
  • a feed gas inlet tube 6 is connected to the inlet 1 of a purification cylinder 5 provided with a heater 4 .
  • a cooler 7 is connected to the outlet 2, and to the outlet 2, a cooler 7 is connected.
  • a purified gas outlet tube 8 is connected.
  • the purification cylinder 5 In purification of the rare gas, the purification cylinder 5 is heated to a predetermined temperature for operation with the heater 4, and in this state, the feed rare gas is introduced from the inlet tube 6 through the inlet 1 into the purification cylinder 5.
  • the rare gas passing through the purification cylinder 5 comes into contact with the getter 3, whereby impurities react with the getter 3 and are removed.
  • the rare gas freed of the impurities is introduced through the outlet 2 into the cooler 7 where it is cooled to a predetermined temperature.
  • the purified gas thus obtained is withdrawn through the outlet tube 8.
  • the getter of the present invention has a high impurity removing ability per unit weight and exhibits high activity at low temperatures in the neighbourhood of 400°C, and can efficiently decrease the content of nitrogen, hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen, water, etc., in a rare gas to the level of less than 10 ppb, more specifically less than 1 ppb.
  • the purification apparatus can be decreased in size, and can be easily installed at a place of high cost, such as in a clean room in a semiconductor fabrication factory. Since the purification operation can be carried out at lowered temperatures, a purification cylinder made of metal, such as stainless steel, can be used. Thus the safety problem can be removed even under pressure, and at the same time, a circular furnace for heating is not needed; heating can be applied in a simplified manner such as by the use of a micro sheath heater. Miniaturization of installation and decrease in cost have been realized.
  • a zirconium sponge and bulky vanadium (purity of at least 95%) both available on the commercial market were mixed so that the content of zirconium and vanadium were 80% and 20% by weight, respectively.
  • the resulting mixture was melted in a water cooled copper hearth (10 ⁇ 4 Torr) by twice repeating an electron beam application operation to obtain about 500 g of an alloy.
  • the alloy thus obtained was ground by the use of a ball mill in an atmosphere of argon, and a 14 to 20 mesh portion was separated by the use of a sieve to obtain a getter as a test sample.
  • a purification apparatus of the same construction as shown in the Figure was employed.
  • a stainless steel tube having an outer diameter of 17.3 mm and an inner diameter of 14 mm was used as a purification cylinder, in which the above getter was charged to a height of 600 mm.
  • the getter was previously subjected to activation treatment in an argon stream at 720°C for 3 hours.
  • a micro sheath heater and a heat insulating material were wound on the outside of the purification cylinder.
  • the argon gas was introduced by the use of a mass flow controller at a flow rate of 0.89 liter/min. and under a pressure of 4 kgf/cm2 to continuously purify the argon gas.
  • the methane, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide contents were determined by FID gas chromatography
  • the hydrogen and nitrogen contents were determined by TCD gas chromatography
  • the oxygen content was determined by the use of a Hersch ppb oxygen analyzer
  • the water content was determined by the use of a Panametric dew point meter.
  • Example 1 In the same manner as in Example 1 except that the composition of zirconium and vanadium was changed, two component-alloy getters were prepared and tested for purification. In all of the two-component alloy getters, the passage of nitrogen was first observed. The results are shown in Table 1.
  • Example 1 A mixture of 80 parts by weight of zirconium, 20 parts by weight of vanadium, and 5 parts by weight of bulky chromium or nickel was melted in a water cooled copper hearth by application of electron beam to prepare a three-component alloy getter. For this alloy getter, the same purification test as in Example 1 was conducted.
  • a mixture of zirconium, vanadium and cobalt, or a mixture of zirconium, vanadium, cobalt, and chromium and/or nickel was melted in a magnesia crucible under a reduced pressure of argon in the same manner as in Example 7 by application of microwave heating to prepare a three-, four-or five-component alloy getter. For these alloy getters, the same purification test as in Example 1 was conducted. The results are shown in Table 2.
  • Example 19 The same purification test as in Example 19 was conducted with the exception that the chromium was replaced by iron. The results are shown in Table 3.
  • Example 19 The same purification test as in Example 19 was conducted with the exception that the chromium was replaced by aluminum and the mixture was melted by application of argon arc heating. The results are shown in Table 3.
  • Example 3 The same purification test as in Example 1 was conducted with the exception that the zirconium sponge and the commercially available bulky iron, chromium or nickel were mixed so that the proportion of the zirconium was 80% by weight and the proportion of the iron, chromium or nickel was 20% by weight, and the mixture was melted by repeating twice the operation of melting the mixture by application of argon arc heating. The results are shown in Table 3.

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